The Buddha used the analogy of “feeling is like a bubble” to convey the impermanence and transient nature of sensations. Just like a bubble that appears for a brief moment and then pops, feelings come and go. Feeling is “completely void, hollow, and insubstantial.”
Abandoning hope of fruition is not despair but a deep release and untangling of our confusion about reality.
It’s the small things, done with care and consideration, that make our lives peaceful.
This one thing has help me in life more than anything else…
Almost as soon as we start to practice meditation, to look inward, we see just how wild and untrained are the states of our mind. We are helplessly taken for a ride over and over and over again in endless patterns of reactivity.
The general instruction of ‘observe these two’ is to first take responsibility for our own self and sanity and, second, to be of service to others, helping them to do the same.
There is a deeply meaningful shift available to us when we begin to see our mind in terms of “movements” instead of “contents.”